Sociocultural @ Minnesota Department of Anthropology,

CULTURAL STUDY HUMAN AND , WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DESCRIBING, ANALYZING, INTERPRETING, AND EXPLAINING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES. TAKING THE INTERACTIONS OF CULTURE, POWER, AND HISTORY AS A CENTRAL APPROACH, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS ARE INTERESTED IN THE COMPLEXITIES AND MULTIPLICITIES OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. SPECIFIC TOPICS INCLUDE AND SEXUALITY; POSTCOLONIALISM AND GLOBALIZATION; CULTURE AND ECONOMY; THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ‘RACE’; THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT OF DISEASE AND ILLNESS; RELIGION; AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN WORLDS.

LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGISTS STUDY COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE IN THEIR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT. THEY ARE INTERESTED IN LANGUAGE USE, STRUCTURE, AND CHANGE, AND THE RELATIONS AMONG LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE. TOPICS INCLUDE HOW LANGUAGE IS USED IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS; HOW PEOPLE COMMUNICATE NONVERBALLY; & HOW CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGES DIFFER, PARTICULARLY IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 395 HUMPHREY CENTER 301 19TH AVE S. MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55455 612.625.3400 CLA.UMN.EDU/ANTHROPOLOGY FACEBOOK.COM/UMNANTHROPOLOGY TWITTER.COM/UMNANTHROPOLOGY Sociocultural Faculty @ Minnesota Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

WILLIAM BEEMAN: ; PERFORMANCE STUDIES; BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHEAST ASIA; JAPAN. ERIN DURBAN-ALBRECHT: LGBTQI STUDIES; CRITICAL THEORY; COLONIALISM/ IMPERIALISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; HUMAN RIGHTS; CARIBBEAN.

AISHA GHANI: RELIGION AND LAW; RESEARCH EXAMINES MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF ISLAM & MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN & THROUGH U.S. COURTS. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

SERRA HAKYEMEZ: POLITICAL-LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; KURDISH FREEDOM MOVEMENT; TURKEY; MIDDLE EAST. KAREN HO: ANTHROPOLOGY OF CAPITALISM; FINANCE; GLOBALIZATION; FEMINIST STUDIES; RACE AND ETHNICITY; UNITED STATES.

JEAN LANGFORD: DEATH; HAUNTING; POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; DECONSTRUCTION; SEMIOTICS; HEALING; ANIMALITY; SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA; NORTH AMERICA. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

DAVID LIPSET: MASCULINITY; METAPHOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STRATIFICATION; MASS MEDIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

STUART MCLEAN: ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND THE HUMAN; ART AND VISUAL CULTURE; MEMORY AND DEATH; EXPERIMENTAL WRITING; NORTH ATLANTIC EUROPE.

GLORIA RAHEJA: MUSIC AND SOCIETY; LANDSCAPE; HISTORY; COLONIAL [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ; CASTE; GENDER; INDIA; APPALACHIA.

HOON SONG: POWER, SOVEREIGNTY AND BIOPOLITICS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; UNITED STATES; NORTH KOREA. KAREN-SUE TAUSSIG: ; ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; GENOMICS AS CULTURAL OBJECT; EUROPE; UNITED STATES.

DAVID VALENTINE: FUTURITY AND SPECULATION; LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY; GENDER [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] AND SEXUALITY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES.